'I thought I needed home ownership and the white picket fence, but I was wrong'
Miria Aman, a 53-year-old massage therapist, reflects on her upbringing in Indonesia and her challenging transition to life in London. She discusses how her mother's entrepreneurial spirit and her own experiences with racism shaped her perspective on success and home ownership.
Why it matters
Personal narratives regarding financial and cultural identity provide insight into the diverse experiences of immigrants and the evolving definition of the 'middle-class' dream.
In the latest in our Finances after Fifty series we talk to Miria Aman, 53, a massage therapist, business owner and mother of two teens, whose life has been a wild ride through 'the good, the bad and the ugly'. <b>I grew up in a little place called</b> Bukittinggi in Indonesia. It was just me and my mum. I never knew my dad. My mum was really brainy. She wasn't allowed to be a doctor because she was a woman so she did the second best thing and became a pharmacist. She hated the fact that a lot of people couldn't get medicine because they didn't have the money so she would just give it away and she got into trouble. <b>But she was like the Artful Dodger. </b>She could make money from anything.
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